Fahrenheit 451

This book by Ray Bradbury is about a dystopian world imagined by the author at a time when reading books and intellectual, individualistic thinking are discouraged, and homes with books burnt by 'firemen'. I put down some striking lines I came across. Some with deep meaning, some ironic and some real weird.

'Those who don't build must burn.'

'The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones runs a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.'

'When I was younger, I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.'

'The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself as an oracle, is inborn in us.'

'And on the either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.'